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    Minecraft and HP ENVY 15-3033cl

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ZettaZete, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    Alright, had my HP Envy 15 for quite some time now. I'm loving it to death, but there is one thing that has been bothering me. Minecraft crashes the graphics driver for the Radeon HD 7690M. I don't want to play it with the other graphics driver. I have it set to fixed and the problem persists. Any ideas?

    Could you please test Minecraft on your own HP Envy's, and tell me if it runs smoothly. If it does I'll send it back in for repair. Thank you for the cooperation.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 21, 2012
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  2. mmgilbert

    mmgilbert Notebook Enthusiast

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    Your PC should have no problem running Minecraft. Right now, Dirt3 is doing the same thing to me, but I can run Skyrim with no problems. Make sure your display drivers are up to date or your Minecraft files aren't corrupted. I'll let you know if I fix my own problem.

    Edit: Fixed by repairing the game with the disc.
     
    mmgilbert, Mar 21, 2012
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  3. tbsk8ter

    tbsk8ter Notebook Enthusiast

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    on my hp 173d with the 7690 xt it runs minecraft no problem have you tried to reinstall your graphics drivers and make sure you have java installed.

    Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk
     
    tbsk8ter, Mar 21, 2012
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  4. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have reinstalled, uninstalled, and installed various other drivers. There is a driver for the 6680 I believe that it works but at like 50fps. For the split seconds on running Minecraft on the official drivers I'm up to 300fps. I have the most recent Java 64bit installed.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 21, 2012
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  5. tbsk8ter

    tbsk8ter Notebook Enthusiast

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    have you cleared out your. minecraft folder and tried from a fresh install. also one more suggestion I know it would suck to do but you could do a fresh install of windows.

    Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk
     
    tbsk8ter, Mar 21, 2012
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  6. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have done an HP factory reset and I have reinstalled minecraft quite a few times. However, I"m just about to go through all the steps once again.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 21, 2012
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    tbsk8ter Notebook Enthusiast

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    when it crashes do you get an error message with it? or does it just close to your desktop?

    Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk
     
    tbsk8ter, Mar 22, 2012
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  8. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    Minecraft actually doesn't crash, just the video driver. Of course when the video driver recovers minecraft isn't rendering anymore.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 22, 2012
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    ironman Notebook Evangelist

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    Minecraft + Optifine Multi-Core + HD Texture Pack broke my 7690M XT driver TWICE FOREVER and only fix was reinstalling windows. Temperatures did not even exceed 80 degrees but the card started having glitches everywhere - desktop, browser, you name it...

    I did not know what caused the problem the first time around but then after I did a clean install and about a week later into the clean install, I ran minecraft with those settings and it broke the card again with same symptoms (flashing pixels everywhere and graphical glitches whenever the AMD card is involved - the intel card worked fine). Resintalling drivers does not fix the graphics at all and only fix I know is reinstalling windows... which is very fun -.-

    Now I run minecraft with no mods. I dont know what the problem with the 7690M XT is but my Envy 14 used to run it with everything just fine.
     
    ironman, Mar 22, 2012
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  10. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't think it had to do with my graphics card at all, its HP and there crappy drivers. I can get it to work by using out of date drivers but then I lose performance. I love minecraft and I would love to enjoy it on my nice HP Envy 15.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 22, 2012
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  11. SInC

    SInC Notebook Consultant

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    From what I understand, you can use updated graphics drivers on the Envy 15. You need the HP drivers installed first and then install the new drivers over them.
     
    SInC, Mar 23, 2012
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  12. ZettaZete

    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    Could you elaborate on what exactly you're talking about? Like using different ATI Catalyst versions?
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 23, 2012
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    AtiRadeon1, Mar 23, 2012
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    ZettaZete Notebook Enthusiast

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    What is your performance drop on other games? I don't want to lose too much, I'm already scraping the barrel with full graphics on some games.
     
    ZettaZete, Mar 23, 2012
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  15. JDL24

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    Try these: AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview Driver download from Guru3D.com
    They're the 12.2 Drivers for the 6700m and 6600m cards. much newer than the 11.2 drivers.
     
    JDL24, Apr 8, 2012
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  16. Pobthiti

    Pobthiti Notebook Consultant

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    Okay I was planning to buy the envy now getting worried a bit... So the gpu can't play certain games?... D:
     
    Pobthiti, Apr 8, 2012
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  17. JDL24

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    It's not that the GPU can't play certain games... It's bad driver support...
    But for now I'm using the drivers for 6700 and 6600m which isn't a big difference. If I place this notebook on max performance it doesn't disappoint me... but the fact that it doesn't have stable drivers "annoys" me....
     
    JDL24, Apr 10, 2012
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